Sea Diamond - Captain of Sunken Cruise Ship Is Charged

Update on this story ....

ATHENS, Greece — The captain of a cruise ship that sank off an Aegean Sea island, sending more than 1,500 passengers and crew onto rescue boats, was charged Saturday with causing a shipwreck through negligence.

The 469-foot Sea Diamond sank into the sea after hitting a well-marked and charted reef on Thursday, in fair weather, inside the Greek island of Santorini's sea-filled volcanic crater.

This article says the crew is at fault.

Here is an article out of South Florida. South Florida Student arrive home after the sinking.

Dwayne